I am reading, among other things, Anti Cancer by David Servan-Scheiber.

At the end of one of the early chapters he talks how in Chinese, the notion of "crisis" is written as a combination of the two characters "danger" and "opportunity." Cancers threat can make it hard to grasp its creative potential.

He says, for him, his illness changed his life for the better, and in a way he never could have imagined, previously to being diagnosed.

I'd like to say the same thing. And I think I can.